UK: Vodafone sees no long-term case for blocking VoIP
A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Mobile phone giant Vodafone Group Plc sees no long-term business case for trying to block new technologies such as cut-price or free Internet telephone services from its handsets.
British-based Vodafone, the world's largest mobile phone group by revenue, said on Monday that the only way to wage war against potentially disruptive new technologies such as voice-over-Internet, or VoIP, would be to compete against them.
"Are we legally in a position to put in filters against voice over IP (Internet Protocol)? Well, I wouldn't think anybody would say we couldn't do that today," Vodafone's Chief Technology Officer Thomas Geitner told the group's annual analyst and investor day.
"But clearly building a business case around this would not be a long-term, sustainable (strategy)... Our view is we need to make sure we are cost competitive rather than trying to stop Voice over IP," he added.
posted by Fergie @ 9/19/2005 09:56:00 AM
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